[HN Gopher] Mississippi water is so dirty residents shower with ...
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Mississippi water is so dirty residents shower with their mouths
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Author : al_mandi
Score : 30 points
Date : 2022-09-02 18:42 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| bojangleslover wrote:
| And yet it's GDP per Capita is higher than that of the UK
| postalrat wrote:
| Does that suggest that wealth in Mississippi is extremely
| concentrated near the top?
| LionTamer wrote:
| The US does, Mississippi doesn't. Mississippi has a GDP per
| capital of about $42,411 [0] while UK has $47,334 [1]. Those
| are both in current USD.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
| [1]
| https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
| UglyToad wrote:
| To be fair the UK (or rather England) isn't exactly an examplar
| when it comes to water quality.
|
| https://news.sky.com/story/huge-increase-in-raw-sewage-relea...
| exabrial wrote:
| The government in Mississippi collects Billions in tax revenue
| and wastes it... like every government.
| 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
| That's strange, I've lived here for 5+ years now, and I've never
| heard anyone my native spouse say anything of the sort, nor
| anyone else.
|
| More outrage for the outrage throne!
| lamroger wrote:
| It's because of massive flooding and a damaged treatment plant.
| The governor declared a state of emergency. 150k people have
| been under orders to boil app water since July 29th.
|
| I just heard about it yesterday too.
| sophacles wrote:
| You missed this announcement then:
|
| "Please make sure in the shower that your mouth is not open,"
| Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection at
| the Mississippi Department of Health...
|
| Specifically for Jackson, where they have been having serious
| water problems for a month.
|
| (This is not in the linked article, but in several others on
| the topic)
| 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
| No, I did not miss that. If it's not in the linked article,
| the implication is that we all just know to shower with our
| mouth closed. 2.9 million people, vs 149k.
|
| It's hyperbole, without the details.
| sophacles wrote:
| By "miss" I wasn't implying you can't read or something,
| just that this national news item wasn't something you've
| seen yet. A common way to express that is "you missed it"
| or "i missed that".
|
| Let me rephrase my first sentence:
|
| You many not have seen this yet then...
|
| [snip some unnecessarily stuff in light of edit below].
|
| edit: I just realized and maybe you also hadn't seen yet,
| the linked article is a summary of a video story.
| Additionally, the summary has been updated to include more
| information specifying Jackson and the title has been
| updated since I first looked, I suspect there is much more
| info now than when you first looked..
| 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
| I didn't miss it. I read about it on the 30th of Aug, on
| this article https://www.wsj.com/articles/jackson-miss-
| is-out-of-running-...?
|
| It wasn't the only one I've read, either.
|
| Are you not understanding that I live in Mississippi, and
| I resent the implication that an entire state just has
| filthy water, because of one city with an awfully young
| man at the helm?
| sophacles wrote:
| I clearly was not. Why did you have to ask?
| MomoXenosaga wrote:
| If even a small village in my country didn't have access to
| clean drinking water for more than a week I'd demand some
| unfortunate public official to commit seppuku. It's having
| standards.
| 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
| "America's not the greatest country in the world anymore.
| But we could be..."
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HKbygLjJs
| 57FkMytWjyFu wrote:
| The OP implies that this is common to everyone in the state,
| and I believe it to be nonsense. I know about what's going on
| in Jackson, but I can assure you, the issues with the Pearl
| River flooding a treatment plant are limited to the city of
| Jackson.
|
| Where I live, they shut off the water if you don't pay your
| bill.
|
| Jackson isn't handling things very well. The governor is kind
| of a turd. There's blame to go all around.
|
| https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/02/bennie-thompson-jack...
| chrismeller wrote:
| Having lived in Europe, this feels exactly like the kind of
| reporting they love. "Did you hear what happened in the US?" Or
| "did you see what happened in the US?" It's a big damned place
| and I only personally care about certain parts of it, so no, I
| probably didn't.
|
| I used to expect better out of the BBC...
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